PJ
Paula Jacobs
Actor
Born January 1, 1932Died June 26, 2021 (89 years)
Paula Elsa Jacobs (1932 – 26 June 2021) was a British actress whose television and film career spanned four decades.
Born in Liverpool in 1932 into a Jewish family, her father was J.P. Jacobs, whose company supplied all the elastic to Marks & Spencer. Jacobs made her first television appearance in Z-Cars in 1962, going on to play roles in Softly, Softly: Task Force (1972–1975), Shoestring (1979), Hammer House of Horror (1980), Mapp & Lucia (1985), Mrs Biggs in Porterhouse Blue (1987), The New Statesman (1989), Bergerac (1990), Maud Wilberforce in Jeeves and Wooster (1990), Brookside (1992), French and Saunders (1993), Coronation Street (1994), Casualty (1989–1995), Drop the Dead Donkey (1994–1998), Dalziel and Pascoe (2000), Midsomer Murders (2002), Agatha Christie's Poirot (2004) and Doctors (2008).
Born in Liverpool in 1932 into a Jewish family, her father was J.P. Jacobs, whose company supplied all the elastic to Marks & Spencer. Jacobs made her first television appearance in Z-Cars in 1962, going on to play roles in Softly, Softly: Task Force (1972–1975), Shoestring (1979), Hammer House of Horror (1980), Mapp & Lucia (1985), Mrs Biggs in Porterhouse Blue (1987), The New Statesman (1989), Bergerac (1990), Maud Wilberforce in Jeeves and Wooster (1990), Brookside (1992), French and Saunders (1993), Coronation Street (1994), Casualty (1989–1995), Drop the Dead Donkey (1994–1998), Dalziel and Pascoe (2000), Midsomer Murders (2002), Agatha Christie's Poirot (2004) and Doctors (2008).
Filmography
| 2002 | Goodbye, Mr. Chips · as 1st Card-Playing Lady |
| 2000 | Attachments (TV Series) · as Rosa |
| 2000 | Doctors (TV Series) · as Hetty Loomis |
| 1999 | Tea with Mussolini · as Molly |
| 1998 | CI5: The New Professionals (TV Series) |
| 1997 | Mr. White Goes to Westminster · as Speaker |
| 1997 | Where the Heart Is (TV Series) · as Mrs. Baker |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders (TV Series) · as Mrs. Bosworth |
| 1996 | Dalziel and Pascoe (TV Series) |
| 1996 | The Sculptress (TV Series) · as Mrs Runcorn |
| 1995 | The Famous Five (1995) (TV Series) · as Anita Alfredo |
| 1995 | Little Lord Fauntleroy (TV Series) · as Mrs. Perkins |
| 1994 | Anna Lee (TV Series) · as Receptionist |
| 1993 | The Remains of the Day · as Mrs. Mortimer, The Cook |
| 1992 | The Tomorrow People (1992) (TV Series) · as Betty |
| 1991 | Duel of Hearts · as Landlady |
| 1990 | Can You Hear Me Thinking? · as Rosemary |
| 1990 | Drop The Dead Donkey (TV Series) · as Bernice |
| 1990 | Jeeves and Wooster (TV Series) · as Maud Wilberforce |
| 1989 | Birds Of A Feather (TV Series) · as Mrs. Belloc |
| 1989 | May to December (TV Series) · as Doreen |
| 1989 | Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV Series) · as Mrs. Pearstock |
| 1988 | We Think the World of You · as Deirdre |
| 1988 | Mr Majeika (TV Series) · as Post Mistress Peasgood |
| 1987 | The New Statesman (1987) (TV Series) · as Labour Mp |
| 1987 | The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series) · as Dita Jago |
| 1987 | Porterhouse Blue (TV Series) · as Mrs. Biggs |
| 1987 | French & Saunders (TV Series) · as Mrs. St. Angelo Collins |
| 1986 | Casualty (TV Series) · as Iris Thompson |
| 1985 | Screen One (TV Series) · as Rosemary |
| 1985 | Wings of Death · as Mum / Landlady |
| 1985 | She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas · as Doreen |
| 1985 | The Assam Garden · as Carol |
| 1985 | Mapp and Lucia (TV Series) · as Cook |
| 1984 | Screen Two (TV Series) · as Madam Speaker |
| 1984 | Scully (TV Series) · as Florrie |
| 1984 | Alas Smith and Jones (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1983 | To the Lighthouse · as Mildred |
| 1982 | Brookside (TV Series) · as Joan Daniels |
| 1981 | Bergerac (TV Series) · as Mrs. Frith |
| 1981 | An American Werewolf in London · as Mrs. Kessler |
| 1980 | Hammer House of Horror (TV Series) · as Joyce |
| 1979 | Birth of the Beatles · as Mrs Flemming |
| 1979 | Shoestring (TV Series) |
| 1969 | Softly Softly Task Force (TV Series) · as Mrs. James |
| 1964 | Theatre 625 (TV Series) · as Raped Girl |
| 1963 | First Night (TV Series) · as Joan |
| 1962 | Z Cars (TV Series) · as Shirley |
| 1960 | Coronation Street (TV Series) · as Mrs. Murdoch |